Nearly 170 years ago this week, Mexico sold a substantial chunk of what is now Arizona to the United States. The purchase included the Arizona cities — then small towns — of Yuma, Tucson and Casa ...

Travel along the eastern border of the Gadsden Purchase. Host David Yetman and Naturalist Jesus Garcia, of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, begin at the eastern border of the Gadsden Purchase and ...

Herman Ehrenberg was born in Prussia, but his exploits as a transplant to America in the 1800s included fighting in the Texas Revolution, traveling the Oregon Trail, taking part in the California Gold ...

James Gadsden, ambassador to Mexico, purchased the land south of the Gila River from Mexico in 1853, an area first called the Gadsden Purchase, now Southern Arizona. His name lives on today in Gadsden ...

As the CEO, the Vice President of Research and I were speeding along an interstate highway on our way to Stately Willard Manor West I announced that we were driving through an area acquired by the ...

Dear Mexican: I was a history major at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which I believe was part of the Gadsden Purchase, the last piece of old Mexico the U.S. “acquired.” That got me thinking: ...

MESILLA – It was a day that officially changed the borderland. The ratification of the Gadsden Purchase, also referred to as "El Tratado de La Mesilla," will be remembered at 2 p.m. Saturday on the ...

Gadsden is one of three finalists for a major industrial development project and the Gadsden City Council on Tuesday took a necessary step toward supporting that effort. The council voted to authorize ...

Mayor Craig Ford used two iPhones to offer an object lesson during the Gadsden City Council’s precouncil meeting on Tuesday Ford held up an early model and observed, “This is what I feel like our City ...